Farmerjan's journal - Weather
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Baymule
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That is horrible. You are right Jan, those ranchers are just like us, they care about their animals too. For a terrible drought to be followed by a flood of such magnitude is total devastation.
CntryBoy777
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It really is sad the difficulties being faced in so many locations and the challenges that they present. I really hope y'all can get a break in the moisture up that way @farmerjan it has to be difficult facing it day, after day....after day....
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Good morning all. We have some sun and blue skies out there and the temp is up to 43 already from a low of 36. It was about 30 up at my son's house which is only 5 miles away but up top of the ridge and one of the colder spots around. Highest elevation in the county. It looks to be a pretty nice day today.
It will have to be. We had over another 1" of rain during the night. It rained steadily and everything is beyond saturated. There is water running across the field again, and puddles (lakes) laying everywhere.
Today is supposed to be up in the upper 40's but suspect we will hit the lower 50's. Some wind too but that will be a godsend to try to dry it out a little. Then the temps are going to drop into the 20's tonight. Some sun early tomorrow then clouding up. Snow/rain/ice Tuesday night, changing to rain on Wed after some icy roads, and then rain for the next 4 days after that.
I hope it drowns that stupid rodent in Pa saying we were in for an early spring. We do not need more precip as part of the early spring.
Gotta go up to the barn and get the air tank, come back and get the tire inflated so I can go to the farm bureau and get them to pull it and see where the leak is. Put a tube in it if nothing else. Probably picked up something driving in the pasture somewhere. Also got to get the other tire replaced. May just get 2 and keep the "flat" one for a spare if there isn't much wrong like just a nail or something.
Tomorrow is the cow/calf conference. Then I expect my son will have to go in to work Tuesday night. Hope it's not til midnight so he can get a few hours sleep after we get home. He's gotten a cold and I know it is all these crazy nights and trying to get feeding done during the early morning hours when the ground is somewhat firm.
Hope everyone has a good day. I am going to move the mobile coop I put the chickens together in so they have some "clean" ground before we get this next round of rain.
It will have to be. We had over another 1" of rain during the night. It rained steadily and everything is beyond saturated. There is water running across the field again, and puddles (lakes) laying everywhere.
Today is supposed to be up in the upper 40's but suspect we will hit the lower 50's. Some wind too but that will be a godsend to try to dry it out a little. Then the temps are going to drop into the 20's tonight. Some sun early tomorrow then clouding up. Snow/rain/ice Tuesday night, changing to rain on Wed after some icy roads, and then rain for the next 4 days after that.
I hope it drowns that stupid rodent in Pa saying we were in for an early spring. We do not need more precip as part of the early spring.
Gotta go up to the barn and get the air tank, come back and get the tire inflated so I can go to the farm bureau and get them to pull it and see where the leak is. Put a tube in it if nothing else. Probably picked up something driving in the pasture somewhere. Also got to get the other tire replaced. May just get 2 and keep the "flat" one for a spare if there isn't much wrong like just a nail or something.
Tomorrow is the cow/calf conference. Then I expect my son will have to go in to work Tuesday night. Hope it's not til midnight so he can get a few hours sleep after we get home. He's gotten a cold and I know it is all these crazy nights and trying to get feeding done during the early morning hours when the ground is somewhat firm.
Hope everyone has a good day. I am going to move the mobile coop I put the chickens together in so they have some "clean" ground before we get this next round of rain.
RollingAcres
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Snow here but not expecting much, 1-3 inches.
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Just a note on the Australian floods. Was reading an article and it said they got OVER 2 METERS of rain. Now I am no expert... but a meter is slightly more than a yard right....??? so that means they got over 6 FEET OF RAIN. Another article said that this place got over 1250 mm and another place got 2000mm. By my calculations, that is between 4.5 and 6 FEET of rain over the 10 day period.
Guess I will be thankful we are only getting inches. It will devastate the cattle industry there. I understand that they get alot of extremes there in Australia. Have been dealing with 7 years of drought, now this.
Guess I will be thankful we are only getting inches. It will devastate the cattle industry there. I understand that they get alot of extremes there in Australia. Have been dealing with 7 years of drought, now this.
Mike CHS
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I can't imagine. We got over 40 inches during a two day period from Hurricane Danny in the late 90's.
greybeard
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In the 50s here, mostly sunny, just thin high clouds that come with high atmospheric pressure, but with a constant N. wind blowing, 10-17mph.
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It turned out to be a decent but chilly day.![:\](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/side.png "side :\")
Hit 48, mostly sun until late afternoon then more clouds. The wind blew like anything, alot of gusty stuff, said it was in the 10-15 mph with gusts over 20. Tomorrow looks like mostly clouds then the "winter weather" coming in tomorrow night. 
Have heard anything from as little as 1-2 " up to 5 plus of snow/ice mix. 
Then showers Wed, and RAIN Thurs & Fri with possibility of 1-4 more inches.
Temps are supposed to be near 50 and then 60 on Sunday. 
Hit 48, mostly sun until late afternoon then more clouds. The wind blew like anything, alot of gusty stuff, said it was in the 10-15 mph with gusts over 20. Tomorrow looks like mostly clouds then the "winter weather" coming in tomorrow night. Have heard anything from as little as 1-2 " up to 5 plus of snow/ice mix. Then showers Wed, and RAIN Thurs & Fri with possibility of 1-4 more inches. Temps are supposed to be near 50 and then 60 on Sunday.
Mike CHS
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Every time I lived in Virginia it seemed like the wind almost never stopped blowing in winter.
